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Tabata Times article featuring CrossFit Elysium and Coach Paul
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CROSSFIT ELYSIUM ARTICLES
3. Coach L's article featuring Irene Mejia
4. Burning Runner's Advice For Would-Be CrossFitters
5.Burning Runner's (TJ Murphy) Inside the CrossFit Culture featuring Briana Drost
6.Competitor Magazine photos of our "Rumble in Paradise" competition 11/12/11
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- 2/12/13 WOD
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PsychSanDiego is co- owned by Alessandra Wall Ph.D., wife of Leon Chang and an avid CrossFitter herself. Dr. Wall specializes in anxiety and eating disorders and is available for clients who wish to formulate a comprehensive weight-loss or lifestyle plan and address the psychological component of eating and weight loss. Click on the "coaches" tab to learn more!
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Administrator
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Recipes from the nutrition seminar
Bacon, spinach & mushroom casserole from Courtney Roth: This is a very simple dish all prepared in a single casserole and using some traditional favorites like bacon and mushrooms. Spinach brings everything together and helps create a very filling and savory dish. The rendered bacon grease created during the cooking process will help cook and give ...Feb 03 -
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Paul Estrada
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Coach P's top moments of Rumble 2012
The rumble this past weekend was an absolute blast. The event itself ran on time if not ahead of schedule. No complaints about being too loud. No major injuries. Overall everything went as planned. Every competitor gave it their all and many people surprised themselves with the how well they were able to perform under the stress of competition. I p ...Dec 04 -
CrossFit Elysium coaches prep course!
We are going to be starting a new type of class here at Elysium soon that will be pretty different than any class we’ve had before One of the greatest parts of the CrossFit community/business is that CrossFit gyms have historically developed their coaching staff from their athletes. We are getting busier around here these days and expanding o ...Oct 28 -
Changing body composition pt.2
Most people, especially ladies, are used to the paradigm of exercise being a means to getting "skinny" or being more "slender and toned." Even women that have had an athletic background can be persuaded by the popular notion in our society that females should possess the aforementioned physical qualities. Many ladies, when they start, have goals of ...Sep 27 -
Changing body composition pt. 1
This is going to be a little bit of a series that circles around a topic/idea that has been going around the gym, focusing on body composition and how to get the results you want when taking part in our program here at Elysium or most CrossFit facilities. The goal of lowering body weight/body fat percentage is a very common goal at most gyms. When ...Sep 25 -
Lift of the week, Rachel B
This may be something that I make a regular thing. It has nothing to do with who lifted the heaviest... well maybe sometimes. Most of the time it is gonna be about the story of the lift or the person. This week the winner/person I am gonna pick on is Rachel B. Some of you know Rachel. Others have probably seen her around. She is pretty quite most ...Sep 14 -
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Leon Chang
Co-owner of CrossFit Elysium in San Diego. An M.D. specializing in Anesthesiology and Clinical Director for UCSD Dept of Anesthesia. Other than CrossFit, Leon's interests include gambling, music and soccer.
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The value of training buddies, and getting your brains beat in by them
By now, most of you have gotten to know a few gym-mates that you probably already have a training buddy, even if you don’t know it. Perhaps it’s the person you always share a rack with, or maybe it’s just someone who always shows up to the same class slot you do. Today, I want to talk about the value of having a training partner or buddy, and speci ...May 12 -
Coach L's explanation of the training cycle, starting 4/29
On Monday we will be entering another 6 week training cycle. For this cycle, we've decided to place a little more emphasis on upper body strength. The foundation of the cycle, however, will remain squatting and olympic lifting. Here are some of the pertinent details for the next six weeks- 1. If you have the requisite hip mobility/desire, you may ...Apr 27 -
Holley Mangold, female Olympic lifter- post removed
4/17/13- I have removed this post b/c of the negative impact it may have on my business partner. Some people have expressed offense which was never my intent. To the many of you who have expressed support, thanks. Leon ...Apr 16 -
Coach L's thoughts on the Boston Marathon bombings
This is going to be a quick one, hopefully not too controversial. First of all, what happened in Boston today is a shame and a tragedy. OK, so that being said, what are you going to do about it? I'm not being trite. I'm referring to all of us using this as an opportunity to improve the world around us, and help balance the scales after the events ...Apr 15 -
April 2013 Athlete of the Month- Hamad Almoqatei
This month, we feature Hamad. He has been with us for about ten months and stands out to me for a couple of reasons. To begin, Hamad started as what could politely be referred to as "slight of build". He weighed all of 125lb when he joined Elysium and had ZERO athletic background. He currently weighs 143lb, and the gain has all been muscle. Ho ...Apr 14 -
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Stacie Beal
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Athlete of the Month September 2012: Wendy Davis
Athlete of the Month: Wendy Davis Bio: "I’m your typical full time mom, employee and everything else that life will throw at you. I work 40 plus hours a week and come home to two very energetic boys. Health has always been a procrastinated subject in my life because of “time”. Despite noticing my rapid weight gain due to zero hours of exerci ...Sep 28 -
Athlete of the Month: Greg Vallarino
Athlete of the Month August 2012: Greg Vallarino Bio: Born and raised in NorCal, enjoying living in SoCal. I started working out when I saw the scale hit 281 three years ago - something had to change. And I did what most people did; I started running. I found some success using interval workouts in podcasts (heavy on the walking part, but som ...Aug 22 -
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Alessandra Wall
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Composting How To: Part II of Tyla Montgomery's Guest Post
So now that you understand the why of composting here is some advice from a professional on how to do this. I can tell you that since I have started this process I am now more aware and amazed at the amount of organic waste that is a by-product of our eating habits at the Chang household. I am ever so grateful for Tyla's advice and help in the matt ...May 16 -
Why Bother? - Guest post by Tyla Montgomery (Composting)
Several weeks ago for Earth Day I invited Tyla to join us at my son's pre-school to talk about taking better care of the earth. Tyla delighted all the kids by showing up with some worms and talking about waste management and composting. By the time she showed up in Luca's classroom the Chang household was already on its way to setting up a worm bin ...May 07 -
Weekly Updates - Mishmash
Hey there Elysium, how is your Monday going? After three weeks out of the gym, my first workout was quite a shock; note to self, gains are rapidly lost if you are doing nothing and high bar back squatting is burly when out of practice. But that is not why I write today, today is about Elysium and what is new. We are just a few days away from ...Apr 29 -
Weekly Updates - new space, new opportunities
Thank the greater CrossFit gods that the Open is done and over with. We can now all rest, knowing that we kick ass and get back to focusing on our personal fitness and strength goals. Good job to everyone who participated and gave it their all. Hopefully it was fun to compare yourselves to participants the world round. 1) Elysium has seen quite a ...Apr 08 -
Empower Charter School CrossFit - Why you should care!
I know some of you have heard me talk about Empower Charter School. Many of you have children and probably a lot more of you don't, so why should you care about a charter school that doesn't even exist yet? Well in many ways that is both a tough and an easy question to answer. The tough part is that in the concrete short term there is no real reaso ...Mar 27 -
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